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Loyalty Traveler Analysis of Hotel Rewards Credit Cards

This post summarizes hotel loyalty credit card benefits and current enrollment bonus offers for 8 major hotel programs of Best Western Rewards, Choice Privileges, Hilton HHonors, Hyatt Gold Passport, InterContinental Hotels Group Priority Club, Marriott Rewards, Starwood Preferred Guest and

A blog is not a marketing brochure and other tweets from #smtravel11

“If I share your brand with my friends, it’s not because I like your brand, it’s because I like my friends” cassie_leung: #smtravel11 Loyalty Traveler takeaways from the Social Media in Travel 2011 conference: Hipmunk.com – check out this site

Club Carlson Reward Category Changes for March 31, 2011

Club Carlson is replacing the goldpoints plus loyalty program for Carlson Hotels as of March 31, 2011. Carlson Hotels includes the hotel brands of Radisson, Country Inn & Suites, Park Plaza and Park Inn. The announcement this week of major

IHG 2010 Year in Review

From IHG’s viewpoint: “2010 was an excellent year for IHG.†– Andrew Cosslett, CEO InterContinental Hotels Group. InterContinental Hotels Group released its 2010 Q-4 and year-end financial report (IHG 2010-year end pdf). Loyalty traveler has filtered pertinent information for frequent

Club Carlson loyalty program launches Mar 31, 2011 – replaces goldpoints plus

Big announcement at Carlson Hotels global conference in D.C today. Club Carlson will replace goldpoints plus March 31, 2011. Club Carlson will have three elite tiers with a new Concierge elite tier at 75 nights or 30 stays a year.

World’s Top 20 Hotel Brands

Loyalty Traveler surveys world’s Top 20 Hotel Brands for loyalty program affiliation and hotel benefits. The hotel industry generally ranks the world’s biggest hotel brands by different criteria than Loyalty Traveler. The hotel industry ranks hotel brands by the total number of rooms

InsideFlyer Hotel Elite Comparisons and High Category Awards

InsideFlyer has a free web access article on Hotel Loyalty Elite Comparisons across more than 25 loyalty programs.  February’s issue features part one of the article and March will feature part two as the cover story. I am not the

Loyalty Traveler examines Points.com exchange value

Loyalty traveler received an email today from Points.com. A senior account executive from New York shot over some data points to color up my stories. Is this a good place to insert that I am color-blind? I see colors, but

Stash Hotel Rewards Share the Love Contest and Loyalty Program Review

Share the Love is an essay contest from Stash Hotel Rewards for a two-night free stay (Fri Feb 11 – Sun Feb 13) at any of 46 hotels around the U.S.   Contest link. Simply tell Stash Hotel Rewards why you want to

Hyatt Stay and Weekend Prepaid Certificates

Hyatt Stay Certificates and Hyatt Weekend certificates are a prepaid payment option for Hyatt Gold Passport stays. There has been a slight increase in the cost of Hyatt Stay Certificates for the three lower tiers of the five tier certificate

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